The discussion in the Senate Justice Committee is still on standby but the bill against homotransphobia heats up the debate in the Hall of Palazzo Madama, after yesterday's split in the bureau of the commission on the hinging of the provision, up to the decision of the president Andrea Ostellari, of the Lega, to refer the matter to the group leaders' conference.
At the request of the League in the Chamber (contrary to the initiation of the provision) to take a step back on "such divisive issues" for an enlarged majority, the group leaders of Pd, M5s, Misto group and Italia viva replied, asking to start the discussion and in any case to have the commission decide.
For Simona Malpezzi, president of the Dem senators, "we simply want to discuss in the Justice Committee the bills concerning hate crimes. Since there is a large majority in support of the government, Parliament can vote on the emergency decrees. and work on bills of parliamentary initiative. One thing does not exclude the other ", underlining that on issues such as the Zan bill" I believe there can be a transversal consensus ".
Ettore Licheri of the M5s replied by saying that "there is no country in the world that can give up growing on the subject of the civil rights of the individual, no matter what the League says. Italy wants a law that does not allow a person to be insulted and beaten simply for her way of being ".
The Zan bill is firm in the Senate but "I believe that the protection of the rights of every diversity and every heterogeneity of man must be at the center of all policies. I think it is important to carry out this bill which incorporates many proposals made by Senator Maiorino in one of her legislative proposals.
We urgently ask for the calendirization of that rule
", said Stefano Patuanelli, Minister of Agricultural Policies and M5S exponent in an interview with RaiNews24.
Loredana De Petris of the Misto group also opposed yesterday's decision by Ostellari: "In Parliament no one can have the possibility of veto but everyone can discuss. Here comes measures from the Chamber, such as the Zan bill or the one on the commission of inquiry on fake news, and it is the duty of this branch of Parliament to examine them. "
For Davide Farone of IV: "I consider hypocritical whoever defends the Zan bill and does not say a word against Grillo in that scandalous video. If the Zan bill had been approved, Grillo would have been kicked out".
And he concluded: "I believe that this bill must be dealt with, the conditions exist to do so".